Tim Apple was smart enough to gift a gold plated whatever.

Sam Altman is a grifter himself and knew how to play this.

And now that we know communism is actually defined as anti-bigotry and has nothing to do with the means of production, I guess it is not communist to take ownership in Intel.

But Satya won't pucker up for Piggie. And so Microsoft gets to be the face of an attempt to gin up anti-Indian bigotry before the midterms.

Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave.

HEIC is worthless because it's illegal to implement unless you get permission. Maybe in 20 years it'll be usable.

Don't like that fact? Then we need to find and support (oh no, and be?) political candidates who oppose software patents.

You shouldn't need anyone's permission to write a computer program. It's infuriating.

Of course, it's mostly about punishing you for not calling a boy "she", or for saying something true about Hamas, and stuff like that.

.... something something AI slop something??

99.9% of that can be solved with allowing the construction of new designs of reactors instead of booting the old ones back up.

Yeah, puzzling.

There can be reasons - just barely - to have a major retailer's app, like Walmart or Target or whatever.

But a clothing store?

Okay, so it's a "high fashion" clothing store for pouty androgynous people?

Sucks to be hacked, but ... okay.

(Then again, maybe there is a significant /. overlap these days, lol.)

... plenty of research showing that the constant clock changing is damaging to human health.

Just pick one and stick to it.

... "tools found to have been used to do stuff."

The people using the tools should indeed be held accountable.

Well except half the streaming services are rotten with ads these days.

Its exceptionally painful in election season too. Just ugh.

Nornally I can nuke most of it via ad-blockers, But that stupid 70" samsung TV, no such luck.

(Hey, hackers, how about jailbreaking these things. Be nice to have an alternative to loungeroom spyware again)

Never underestimate the insanity and abject incompetence of windows sysadmins when given power over infrastructure.

The fact that the companies doing this the most seem to be the ones with the biggest revenues is a pretty good clue this is only about increasing stock dividends (and thus C-Suite bonuses)

You know, contrary to what your leftist paranoia tells you, rich people are not psychopaths, don't project your own faults onto everyone else.

Let me guess, you not only yell at people for jokes, you also yell at people for being upset at jokes.

A lawyer friend of mine uses a little fleet of small Qwens for paperwork and general office bureaucracy (He's not prepared to let them anywhere near actual lawyering for obvious reasons*) in his one man practice, and they work shockingly well. And I'm not being colorful when I say "bureaucracy" , these things are *really* bureaucratic. They've internally come up with procedures for everything including procedures for coming up with procedures. They run off a 512gb M4 mac studio and can be a little slow, but it means he gets to run it all offline airgapping them away from doing something stupid that might expose his clients data to the internet.

*He did experiment with using them to create mock trials to battletest legal arguments, and the result WAS impressive, but not impressive enough to use as part of regular legal practice and its still ia use that could anger the gods should they screw up and cite a fake case or something, so that was more for experimental purpose, though he's convinced it'd be a pretty lethal way of filtering out bad legal arguments if he monte-carloed the mock trials to figure out what sort of arguments a prosecutor could use against his own arguments.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.